Features

Everything AudioSilo can do, one line each. Features marked (Bridge) need the optional Bridge running beside your server. Everything else works with the server alone.

Listening

• Play a book: start, pause and skip from any screen, and pick up where you left off on any device.
• The full player: chapters, time left, speed, Voice boost, and Smart speed on Android.
• Listen offline: download books and podcast episodes to your phone, tablet or browser.
• Sleep timer: stop after some minutes or chapters, and shake to keep going.
• Bookmarks and notes: mark a moment with one tap and add a note.
• Up next: a queue of the books you want to hear next.
• The end of a book: end credits and the next book in the series.
• Browse and search: Home, the Library, Search and your favourites.
• Collections: your own lists of books, such as "Road trip", which you can share.
• The book page: your place, chapters, bookmarks and details for one book.
• The companion: characters, the story so far, the ebook text and bookmarks beside the player.
• Keyboard shortcuts in the web player.

Reading and extras

• Read the ebook: read a book's EPUB, with your place kept on every device.
• Follow the narration in the ebook, sentence by sentence, once an admin makes a read-along. (Bridge)
• Recaps and characters: catch up without spoilers past where you are.
• Upcoming releases: new and coming books in your series, with a calendar feed.
• Podcasts: follow and play shows, download episodes, and import shows from another app. (Bridge)
• Your listening stats: time listened, streaks, goals and your top authors.
• Your year in listening: a yearly story of cards you can share.
• Journal: every day you listened, and all your bookmarks and notes.

Apps and devices

• Get the apps: the web player, iPhone and iPad, and Android.
• Connect the app: sign in with a QR code, an invite or a password.
• Apple Watch: send books to your watch and listen without your phone.
• Wear OS: the same on a Wear OS watch, from an Android phone.
• In the car: Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
• Cast: play on a Chromecast, TV or Nest speaker.
• App settings: playback, downloads, appearance and language.
• Your account: password, devices and listening sync.
• Connect through a sign-in proxy such as Cloudflare Access, with headers the app sends.
• API keys: let a dashboard or script reach your server.

Household and sharing

• Invite people: give someone their own account on your server.
• Add your household: add your kids and the adults you live with yourself.
• Limit what someone can see: share a whole library, an author, a series or one book.
• Share a device: several people on one phone or computer, each with their own place.
• Kids mode: a simple player with big covers and a bedtime.
• See what others are listening to: an opt-in row on Home.

Your library

• Organize your audiobook files: folder layout and supported formats.
• Libraries: add folders, rescan and schedule scans.
• Fix book details: match books with community metadata, or edit them by hand.
• Library health: find books that could be better and match many at once.
• Community metadata: a free database of books, series and release dates.
• Characters, recaps and chapters for books the community hasn't covered. (Bridge)
• Back up your Audible books and keep your places in step with Audible. (Bridge)
• Add free books from LibriVox: search LibriVox and download a public-domain audiobook into a library, already matched. (Bridge)
• Contribute from your server: share corrections and recaps with the community. (Bridge)
• Import from Audiobookshelf: bring over listening history, progress and bookmarks, and Audiobookshelf's ASINs and ISBNs for matching.

Running the server

• Install with Docker, on Unraid, on a Synology NAS, or without Docker.
• Set up your server: the first-run checklist.
• Move over from Audiobookshelf: read the same folders, then bring book details and listening history across.
• Reach your server from outside your home: a domain name and a trusted certificate.
• Back up your server: scheduled and manual backups, and restore.
• Notifications: new books, failed scans and sign-ins, on your phone, Discord or a webhook.
• Activity: who is listening now, and listening over time.
• Server settings: every setting in the admin console, plus updates and logs.
• The admin console: where everything lives.
• The Bridge: the optional companion that adds the (Bridge) features above.
• Try the demo without installing anything.